For me it's growing up in a time and place in which Latin was taught at the public high school and translating parts of the Aeneid, then reading the whole epic in English translation in college world lit.
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- March 11th, 2024, 1:22 pm
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
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Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
- March 10th, 2024, 1:25 pm
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
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Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
Sections 5 and 6 are pl ok. I wonder how many people today know who Anchises was, or even Aeneas, at least in the mythology enshrined in the Aeneid.
- March 9th, 2024, 4:47 pm
- Forum: Readers Wanted: Books
- Topic: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot
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Re: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot
Section 10 is pl ok. Thanks, Larry. I'll put in a claim for section 11 if you have time to proof it.
- March 3rd, 2024, 12:01 pm
- Forum: Readers Wanted: Books
- Topic: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot
- Replies: 40
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Re: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot
Section 25 is pl ok. Thank you, Claire.
- February 27th, 2024, 1:41 pm
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
- Replies: 24
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Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
Section 4 is pl ok.
- February 27th, 2024, 5:33 am
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
- Replies: 24
- Views: 733
Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
Sections 2 and 3 are pl ok. I'll try to get to section 4 this evening.
- February 20th, 2024, 9:58 am
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
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Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
Section 2 pl notes: Oh dear, a teacher of English as a foreign language is jolted by the sound of an adjective where there should be an adverb as in the clause, "each strove to end its neutrality favourably to himself." It's found just a little way down from the mid-point of page 25 and, c...
- February 20th, 2024, 3:21 am
- Forum: Going Solo
- Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
- Replies: 24
- Views: 733
Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
Section 1 is pl ok.
- February 20th, 2024, 2:50 am
- Forum: Readers Wanted: Books
- Topic: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2349
Re: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot
Section 3 is pl ok. Thank you, Elijah.
- February 5th, 2024, 1:42 pm
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa
- Replies: 121
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Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa
Sections 41 and 42 are pl ok. Once again the one little thing I thought might be a mistake, turned out to be in keeping with the text. I thought "prince of Christendom" might ought to have been in the plural, meaning the several kings in Europe, but singular it is, apparently meaning the H...
- February 2nd, 2024, 3:07 pm
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa
- Replies: 121
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Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa
Yes. I'm still sometimes amazed that I actually live here, so even coming back from Paris isn't a huge change in historic and artistic interest of my surroundings. I looked up the cannon and found that it was designed and built by a man named Orban (or Urban) whose nationality is disputed, probably ...
- February 2nd, 2024, 9:55 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa
- Replies: 121
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Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa
Section 40 is pl ok. Interesting to get into the details of things I knew the broad brush strokes of. During the pandemic I taught private English lessons for which a taxi took me almost every morning for a ride along the western land walls of Constantinople and past Edirne (Adrianople) gate where M...
- February 2nd, 2024, 8:22 am
- Forum: Readers Wanted: Books
- Topic: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2349
Re: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot
Section 1 is pl ok. Thank you, Elijah.
- January 29th, 2024, 10:17 am
- Forum: Completed Projects
- Topic: [COMPLETE] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa
- Replies: 121
- Views: 11324
Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa
Sections 36 through 39 are pl ok. In the Florentine setting I'm beginning to feel a bit more on familiar ground, at least from art history (Brunelleschi) and I once was somewhat knowledgeable about the rise of the Medici from a course on the Renaissance and Reformation many years ago.
- January 28th, 2024, 11:08 am
- Forum: Readers Wanted: Books
- Topic: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2349
Re: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot
Section 01 is pl ok. Thank you, Elijah.